[Torg] Moment of Crisis

[Phil Dack]

Was just reading the moment of crisis section of TRE, and I was
thinking about the statement there about making a:

"strong moral choice for good or evil. For purposes of the
Moment of Crisis, “good” is considered to be a choice that
places the safety or interests of others ahead of the
character’s own safety or interests while “evil”is the reverse."

Personally, I dont think that even in the limited context of a
MoC, this definition isn't quite right. Choosing to save
yourself rather than act to help someone else strikes me as NOT
making a strong moral choice - it's more of a "neutral" action.
The requirement of strong moral choice suggest you must decide
either to do something to help or do something to hinder, but in
either case you must do something. 

Using the example in TRE, the moral choice for good was to put
the PC in harms way by leading the Giant death squad away from
the cave housing the humans. The equivalent evil act surely
would've been to go along with the mission and lead the giants
there, putting his own safety above that of others... and thus
whatever decision he made (to go, to not go) he would've had a
MoC and become p-rated? Surely that can't be right?!

I'd see the opposite act as going along with the mission and not
just showing the Giants there, but taking an active and
enthusiastic part in the killing, making a clear moral choice to
become a murderer of innocents... although this then raises the
question of why, by this example of MoC, there aren't an awful
lot more prateds out there!

Phil


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